Iron fence



J. WOODHILL & J. O'GORMAN; lron Fence. Y

M. 224,502. Patented Feb. 10,1880.

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NJETERS, PHDTKLLIYMOGRAPHER. WASHINGTON, '0. C.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN WOODHILL AND JAMES OGORMAN, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO.

IRON FENCE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 224,502, dated February 10, 1880.

' Application filed August 6, 1879.

To all whom it may concern Be it known thatwe, JOHN WOODHILL and JAMES OGORMAN, of Cleveland, in the'county of Ouyahoga and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Iron Fences, which improvements are fully set forth in the following specification and accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 represents a front view of my fence, partly in section. Fig. 2 represents, in detail, a top view of a part of the rail with an opening for a picket therein. Fig. 3 represents, in detail, a cross-section of the rail, and Fig. 4 represents a detail view of the key employed.

A designates a rail, made of channel-iron and arranged with the flanges downward. B

B designate'pickets, which may be either square or round in cross-section, and which pass through openings in said rail A. These openings are provided at their opposite sides or ends with extensions 1) b, which extensions receive the downwardly-extending pins 0 of key-plates O. Thesekey-plates are semicircular in form, and there is a pair of them for each picket. They are provided on their inner faces with lugs c c, which set into corresponding recesses d d of pickets B.

To fasten the fence together, each picket B is passed down through one of the openings in rail A until the proper point for fastening is reached. The pins 0 of key-plates O G are then passed down through extensions 1) b of the opening in said rail, and the lugs c c are introduced into recesses d d of the picket B. These two keys embrace said picket, and their outer-flanges or shoulders, 6, rest upon rail A. The lower end of each pin G is then bent under rail A, so as to lock the fence tightly together. V

I am aware that fences have been patented in which the pickets are fastened to the rails by wedges, the picket being notched on four sides and turned partly round in the act of fastening, or as a preliminary procedure thereto. I do not claim such construction.

What I do claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The key-plates 0, having pins G,.lugs c, and shoulders e, in combination with pickets B, having notches d, and rails A, having holes cerresponding to said pickets, said holes being provided with extensions b b, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

' JOHN WOODHILL.

JAMES OGORMAN. Witnesses:

GEO. W. TIBBITTS, E. W. LAIRD. 

